New tenants for Heights-area Walmart center announced

Taco Cabana, Starbucks, Sport Clips. That’s just a sample of some of the retailers that have signed up for space in the Washington Heights Shopping Center (aka the Heights Walmart development).

The newly announced tenants are representative of what shoppers will find there: big retail chains. It’s not surprising, since these are growing companies with the financial means to expand. However, it’s not quite the lineup some were hoping for when the project was first announced. A couple years ago, the folks involved were hoping to attract “chef-driven restaurants, local boutiques and “non-chain outlets.”

In addition to a 150,000-square-foot Walmart, here’s a list of retailers planning to open stores at the center this fall: